Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-08-12
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safety, but it was under its weight that tn
half consumed bridge gave way and tn
tender dropped back into the dry slough
Sutherlands engine kept the rails and raj
on in safety, such was the awful speed o
the unfortunate train. McClintock's engine
plunged down into the black hole, and a
the tender mounted on top of the cab, i
took McClintock in the back of the neck
and cut his neck clean off his shoulders
The trunk was found under the engine
but the head could not be discovered ano
the presumption is that 1t was ground &c
atoms In the horrible millstones OF the en-
CINE and the tender.
The news of the disaster was brought to
Chatsworth by one of the passengers about
midnight and the inhabitants around Sc
cured buggies, lumber wagons and every
kind of vehicles to reach the fatal spot.
As fast as the corpse were taken from the
wreck thew were laid out on the side Of the
track.
Before daylight the work or recovering
the dead and removing them to Chatsworth
was begun.
As soon as the corpSes were recovered
they were placed in large, empty build
ing lately occupied as store. Also in the
public school house and depot rooms
The residents of the town threw open their
houses for the reception of the dead and
wounded, but the former were all taken to
improvised morgues. Friends and rela-
tives of the dead came to Chatsworth with
remains and the scenes In the different
places where the bodies lay was most heart
rending and distressing.
AS the day passed bodies were continually
brought in from the scene OF wreck. The
majority of them were mangled in the
most frightful manner, many of them hav-
ing their faces entirely torn away, leaving
their brains exposed, while their jaws,
fingers end legs had been torn off.
PEORIA, ILL.,, Aug. n.-Several thousand
people were at the depot this afternoon
when the train arrived bearing the first of
the wounded from Chatsworth. The
crowd was so large and so eager to obtain
a view that it was difficult TO control 1t.
Accounts of the disaster were obtained
from several passengers on the train. MIR.
J. N Tennery who was in the first sleeper
said: ] felt three distinct shocks and then
heard grinding sound and on looking out
saw that the car in which we were was
directly over the fire which was slowly
blazing on the stringers of the bridge. l
got out safely and the scene presented to
the eye and ear was one | wish l could
forever efface from my memory, but
know | never can The shrieks of the
dying and glaring faces of the dead will
always stay with me. To ado to the horror
it was pitch dark, save the fitful light OF
the fire under the sleeper which lighted
the faces of those about only to make their
anguish more visible. On the mouths of
most of the corpses could be seen foam,
which showed that they had died in agony.
At last we secured some feeble lights but
the wind blew them out and about O'Clock
the rain poured down in torrents on the I'm.
protected dead and dying in the hedges
and cornfields adjacent.
Our efforts were divided besween trying
to put out the fire and rescue the dying
whose cries for help was heartrending in
deed. Mothers ran wildly about crying for
lost children, and wives for husbands.
Strong men were weeping over the forms
of their beloved wives; pray
ers, entreaties and grOans hlled
the sir until daylight, when relief parties
got to work and removed the dead and
wounded from the scene.
The scene in the cars was beyond des-
cription. One young child was found fas
tened near the roof of the car head down
been thrown, and was dead when taken
down. Others were found in all conceiv-
able shapes, thrown out of their seats,
piled IN the end or aisles of the cars, bleed
ing from gashes In the face, arms or other
portions of the body.
CHATswoRTH, H., Aug. 11.-Dr. Hazen
of Fort Madison, Iowa, says the train was
running about 80 miles per hour when the
accident occurred. He felt a sudden jar
and then found himself and wife fastened
under the seats. He pulled the back off of
two of the seats before he could get his
wife out. She was bruised on the body
and both of her feet were crushed. His
shoulder was dislocated and he had 1t
pulled into place as soon as he could get out
of the wreck. In helping others he put 1t
out of place again and had to have
it pulled into place a second time.
There were nine persons in his party and
he can only hear of three of them so far.
He says he saw Mr.. E. d. Stoddard band
his boy out to lady while he crawled back
to get his wife, who was killed. The fol-
lowing are the names of the wounded as far
as taken:
E. w. Walker and wife, Peoria, wound
ed In head and limbs.
Mrs Emma Region and son, Peoria.
slightly injured.
John Fry, Peoria, leg broken bace in
jured.
HIT Ogden. Grayton, H., head and
foot injured.
Florence E. Boucher, Bayard, Ia, arm
hurt
Pat Bradley, Gilman, H., foot and
head.
Sophia Pauline, Peoria, head.
c. W. Young, West Jersey, hands.
W. S. Zank, West jersey, foot and
shoulder.
G. A. Scott, Toleons, H., ankle.
Thomas Trims, Park Ridge, H., arms
and legs.
Mrs. Edith Schellow, Glassford, H., leg
broken and ankle bruised.
Mr.. Chellow, leg dislocated
Joe Neal, Mossville, H., head and limbs.
Mrs. Joe Neal, ann and leg broken; baby
killed.
Miss Julia Valdeio, Peoria, internally.
Abe Lemons, Discoit, H., ankle.
DR.. E. p. Hszen and wife, Fort Madi-
son, Iowa, heads hurt.
Miss Emma Y. listers, West Point,
Iowa, head and limbs.
Mrs. G. III. Thorn, Risk, Iowa, intern
ally.
II. H. Bond. Colchester, ILL.,, internally.
Mrs. Thos. McEvoy, Peoria, internally.
Mrs l. W. Grant, Peoria, internally.
Mary Morris, Peoria. bruised.
Mr. Robert Zimmerman, Peoria, head
and spine.